I was engaged in infrastructure construction in the Han Dynasty [Transmigration Book]

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Liu Tan was surprised: "How did he know? Did the scouts find out something?"

Liu Che directly dragged his son and sat back: "Let him in."

Liu Tan tugged at his collar, turned his head and stared at Liu Che with wide eyes: You don't want to show me some face in front of my subordinates?

Liu Che let go of his hand with a smile and straightened his collar for him.

After Wei Buyi came in and practiced the ceremony honestly, Liu Che asked, "How do you know that there is more than one native here?"

Wei Buyi said frankly, "It was said by the captured natives."

Liu Tan heard question marks all over his face: "Say it? Do you understand?"

Wei Buyi thought for a while: "I don't really understand, but I can barely understand what they mean."

Liu Tan looked Wei Buyi carefully up and down for a while: "Could it be that my judgment was wrong before, the place you should go most is Honglu?"

Wei Buyi was immediately very nervous: "Your Highness, it's not bad for us to lead the army to fight. I can't do it in Honglu. I'm afraid that I will offend all the envoys in the past."

Liu Che said with a smile: "As far as your communication skills are concerned, maybe those foreign envoys will introduce you as a confidant."

After all, when they arrived in the big man, there were very few people who could fully understand what they said, and Wei Buyi looked upright, which was very attractive.

Wei Buyi's face was about to collapse. If he had known earlier, he shouldn't have had nothing to do to chat with those natives. Take a look, did something happen?

Honglu has always been a relatively unpopular place. Although it sounds like it is engaged in diplomacy, in fact the big man doesn't pay much attention to diplomacy.

As far as diplomacy is concerned, these envoys can only be classified into two categories, those sent by countries that the big man can beat and those sent by the country that the big man can't beat.

To deal with these two kinds of countries, according to the understanding of ordinary people, it is probably to be tough when dealing with countries that can be defeated, and to be gentle when dealing with countries that cannot be defeated, and to avoid conflicts as much as possible.

However, it is actually the other way around for the big men. They are generally very gentle towards countries they can beat, and will not be too aggressive. On the contrary, they will be very tough against countries that they cannot beat and have a bad relationship with them.

So honglu is not easy to make, Wei Buyi never thinks that he is a material for honglu.

Liu Che and Liu Tan's father and son almost made the honest man cry, Liu Che then said: "Anyway, the King of the Northern Realm has the final say on what you do, it's useless for you to beg me, please turn around and beg your Highness well. "

Liu Tan: ...

Although Wei Buyi wasn't that smart, but at this moment, he had some quality, so he looked at Liu Tan pitifully.

Liu Tan coughed softly: "I do have plans to change the captain, but the northern border country is so short of people, who should I change?"

After Liu Tan finished speaking, he also looked at Liu Che.

Liu Che snorted: "Okay, okay, I'll make arrangements for you when I get back."

That's enough, and another person was poached from his father. Liu Tanmei turned around and asked Wei Buyi: "They said there are other natives? Are they similar to the various tribes in Baiyue?"

Wei Buyi was stunned for a moment, then he realized that he had turned around again, and quickly said: "Yes, the island is said to be very wide, and they don't know where the farthest is, but they are relatively small here. A tribe, the largest tribe seems to be going a little further south."

After hearing this, Liu Tan said in his heart that the Philippines in later generations is only as big as it is, so it is not clear?If he has enough people, let alone figure out how big it is, he will even make it clear to you what delicious food is nearby!

Liu Che asked, "Do the tribes here often clash?"

Wei Buyi said: "There will be conflicts, but not many. It is said that they are not short of food."

Wei Buyi also felt a little bit emotional, this place seems to be very blessed, the food matures quickly, all kinds of crops mature quickly, and it is close to the sea, so they really don't lack much food.

It's just that the aboriginal cooking skills here are so poor that they only know how to bake or boil it, so that Wei Buyi took out a piece of yellow rice noodle pancake and let them beat their heads. After all, they have never eaten such exquisitely made food before.

After hearing this, Liu Che said thoughtfully, "It would be much easier if the family is not the only one. Let them fight each other."

Liu Tan was shocked when he heard this, and immediately thought of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Three Kingdoms Period, the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period... Oh, the latter two are a bit far-fetched, but... the people of the Central Plains have great experience in unification, and they are splitting The above is also very thoughtful.

If you really start playing He Zong Lian Heng, how can these natives be the opponents of the big man?I'm afraid I'm going to spoil them.

However, as Liu Che said, it would be more convenient for the island to have more than one aborigine. As for how to support them, it is too easy.

It's just that he won't participate too much in this aspect. Liu Che wants to recruit people to discuss and lay the groundwork first, and then hand it over to the people below to handle this matter when he returns to Chang'an.

Liu Tan thought about it and got up and said, "I'll watch them make dinner."

Liu Che glanced at him, Liu Tan immediately covered the back of his neck, and walked back with a vigilant expression - he was afraid that his father would sneak back again.

Liu Che smiled and watched his son walk out in such a backward way.

After Liu Tan went out, he really ran to the kitchen.

This kitchen has been done very well before. With the characteristics of people from the Central Plains, they will not treat their stomachs badly wherever they go. Especially for people like Liu Che, where the kitchen is not good, the kitchen is good.

After Liu Tan came, he sent someone to clean up the kitchen again—mainly to carry out hygienic standards and sterilization and disinfection. The kitchen was freshly painted inside and out.

Although many people looked awkward at the white house, Liu Che let his son do it, and the others couldn't afford to offend Liu Tan. Now that even King Qi has died in front of the King of the Northern Territory, what else can they say?

After talking about it, Liu asked, "Have you found all the old coconuts?"

Immediately someone said: "Go back to Your Highness, I've found it."

After the man replied, he was a little puzzled and asked, "Your Highness, why don't you want the tender ones but the old coconuts?"

Liu Tan said casually: "Tenderer green coconuts are only suitable for drinking. Of course, old coconuts should be used for cooking."

Old Coconut is also known as Ye Huang in later generations, but these days, the word Huang cannot be used casually, so he simply called Lao Coconut directly.

He said before that he would make coconut chicken for Liu Che. This dish is actually quite simple. It is delicious and sweet, and it doesn't need too heavy seasoning.

Chickens are naturally selected from local pheasants. These indigenous people do not know how to raise animals in captivity, and they rely on hunting for meat. , The chicken coop outside has been filled with wild pheasants.

In fact, there is no saying that free-range chickens are better than farmed chickens these days. After all, there is no such thing as feed. Even farmed chickens are fed grains and bugs, or let them find something to eat by themselves. it's the same.

Now I just don’t know how the chicken on this island tastes like. It seems that the oil is not rich enough, but fortunately, the coconut also has oil.

Liu Tan asked someone to open the coconut and pour out the coconut milk, and then mixed the coconut milk with cooking wine, soy sauce, salt and sugar. He also tasted the flavors to make sure that the proportions were perfect, and none of the flavors were too heavy. OK.

Then put the chopped chicken pieces in, then pour in the adjusted coconut milk, put a little ginger by the way, and finally put it directly into the pot and pour water to cook for an hour, and the dish is finished.

Compared with the dishes he was tinkering with before, this one can be regarded as very simple.

Then there is pineapple rice. According to Liu Tan's understanding, pineapple rice is actually pineapple fried rice with various seasonings added.

After preparing the bacon, chicken and other materials, Liu Tan suddenly remembered that they had brought yellow rice, but Liu Tan suddenly wondered whether there is rice on this island?

He remembered that rice actually appeared quite early, but it was not spread to the Central Plains because of the harsh planting conditions. Before that, the southern side was not under the control of the big man, so naturally he did not know that there was such a crop. Now this island The natural and climatic conditions on the island can be regarded as unique, but... these indigenous people don't know how to farm, so I don't know if they can find wild rice.

Thinking of this, Liu Tan took a look at the sky and found that it was still early, so he decided to go out for a walk. After calculating, it is already May, and if it is early, the rice should have matured by this time.

Of course, he is not sure, after all, he has never been in contact with these things, and he just has a vague impression. If he is not mature, he should just come back and continue to use yellow rice.

He went out on horseback, and the places he went were lakes and wetlands with water. Rice paddy rice, as the name suggests, requires a lot of water.

On the way, he did encounter some things that looked like rice with fruits, but after he opened them, he knew that those things were not.

Finally, he finally saw something similar to rice in a small field. This rice plant was not the same as the pictures he saw back then, but it was nothing. Wild rice is different.

Anyway, he recognizes rice all by the appearance of rice, as long as he gets it over to see if it is similar to rice, he will basically know.

He asked people to pick those rice-shaped things, and carefully peeled off the yellow skin on the outside, revealing the plant seeds inside.

Liu Tan was lost in thought about the few grains of rice in his palm.

To say yes, it is indeed very similar, but it is a little smaller than the rice of later generations, but the question is why is this thing light yellow?In Liu Tan's memory, the rice is all white, and even has some crystal clear translucent colors. He has never seen light yellow rice. Is it a unique variety that has not fully evolved in this era?